Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.3

Rank #155 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.1

Rank #303 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 58.1 to 27.3.
  • Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.329.1
Released2025-10-152024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$1—
Output $ / M tokens$5—
Results tracked5319

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.9 (#71), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.3 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Coding14541040
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—29.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.6%
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.5 (#50), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#310), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 18.7 (#254)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14201028
ARC-AGI-24%—
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles8%—
DTBench73.6%—
LMCA30.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.42—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.0 (#69), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 29.2 (#220)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Math13951089
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%—
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.6 (#146), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.3 (#251)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Expert1443984
GPQA Diamond71.2%—
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 27.0 (#111), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 50.1 (#124), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.4 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13761000
LMArena Chinese14151016
LMArena French14081038
LMArena German13771006
LMArena Japanese1339899
LMArena Korean1346856
LMArena Russian13801004
LMArena Spanish14201058

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.6 (#144), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 52.1 (#289)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14141023
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#86), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.3 (#284)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1427996

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 58.1 (#119), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.3 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text13961050
LMArena Creative Writing13711024
LMArena Multi-Turn1409989
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.3 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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